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the anxiety that results from losing all our familiar signs and symbols of social interaction
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| what are some of the symptoms of culture shock |
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| anxiety, frustration, discomfort, withdrawl, feelings of rejection, etc. |
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| what are the 4 phases of culture shock |
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1. exhiliration stage
- excited, hopeful, curious
2. disenchantment stage
- disappointment, discontent, frustrated
3. adjustement stage
- you gain more understanding of the place, you adjust..less stress
4. effective functioning stage
- comfortable, satisfaction |
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| what is reverse culture shock |
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| it is reentry shock, the culture shock you feel when you go back |
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| how to overcome culture shock |
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1. learn the language
2. learn about the culture
3. guard against ethnocentrism
4. work to maintain your own culture |
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ethnocentrism is a conviction that one's own culture is superior to all other cultures
it's also to use your culture as an anchor to judge other cultures |
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| fundamentalis/moral absolutism |
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| there are objective moral standards that should be applied to all people, at all times, everywhere in the world |
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moral relativism, having respect for one's culture, saying that you can't change the way a country/culture does things
- to think things can't be changed |
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| Ethics in intercultural comm |
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A. be mindful that communication produces a response
B. show respect for others
C. serach for commonalities among people and culture |
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he was against the idea of "one size fits all"
he was against the global theory
he was a relativist
Foucaut believed that the people had knowledge even if they were illiterate because they are the ones who experience life everday
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| what is the 'return of knowledge' |
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| the power should be with the ones who have knowledge/the people |
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| what is sujugated knowledge |
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| a reference to the historical contents that have been buried and disguised in a functionist coherence or formal systemazation |
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a painstaking rediscovery of struggles together with the rude memory of their conflicts
- a combined product of an erudite knowledge |
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| what are the 2 types of power Foucaut mentions |
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1. judicial power: power given to someone who is higher in rank
ex: police, president, judge
*more obvious*
2. people who have more resources than you
- triangle power relationship |
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| What are foucaut's 5 points about power |
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1. foucaut likes to look at the lowest rank of power, he wants to see the end result of the good intention that put therough the reform
how did that affect the bottom rank?
2. is lowest rank affected for better or worse
3. he says power is not linear like the judicial, it is circular
4. we can't control power and we are always affected by it
5. our views on gov, education, etc is affected by power |
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also agreed with foucaut that we should look at things from the marginal view, but we should not romanticize (to talk about something in a way that makes it sound better than it really is, or to believe that something is better than it really is)
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